Grimace
['grɪməs;grɪ'meɪs] or [ɡrɪ'mes]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a contorted facial expression; 'she made a grimace at the prospect'.
(verb.) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; 'He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do'.
校對:索尼亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
(v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
卡米尔錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Distortion of countenance, wry face.
丹尼整理
解釋/意思:
n. a distortion of the face in jest &c.: a smirk.—v.i. to make grimaces.—adj. Grimaced′ with a grimace: distorted.
錄入:温思罗普
例句/造句/用法:
- You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Helena made a pretty grimace, and ordered Maurice back to his chair, which was at a safe distance, and did not admit of any embarrassing endearments. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She made a slight grimace. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Mrs. Fisher made a slight grimace. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- He made a grimace which was habitual with him whenever he was out in a game; then subsided into a laugh, and drew a brandy-flask from his pocket. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The old man listened with a grimace while she spoke, and then said, relaxing his face, The more fools they. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He made a curious grimace--one of his strange and equivocal demonstrations--threw down his cue and followed me from the room. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They were both silent again, and Archer felt the spectre of Count Olenski's letter grimacing hideously between them. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Mademoiselle, he said, grimacing a half-smile, or what he intended for a smile, though it was but a grim and hurried manifestation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Having once caught the bridle, he mastered it directly and sprang to his saddle; grimacing grimly as he made the effort, for it wrenched his sprain. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The most extraordinary thing about the man was, that he was contorting his face into the most fearful and astonishing grimaces that ever were beheld. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Mr. Featherstone's face required its whole scale of grimaces as a muscular outlet to his silent triumph in the soundness of his faculties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- For caresses, too, I now got grimaces; for a pressure of the hand, a pinch on the arm; for a kiss on the cheek, a severe tweak of the ear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His well-laid plan had come to naught, so he sat there screaming at the roaring creature beneath him and making mocking grimaces at it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
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